Foucault’s Soldiers
Several decades ago, when the writings of Michel Foucault were at the peak of their popularity in academia, my former colleague, Jim Riley, remarked insightfully that what was most…
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October 11, 2020
COVID-19 and the Unindicted Co-Conspirators of Academia
It is a lovely image, a beautiful example of the high quality of contemporary newspaper photography. The composition is perfect. The diagonal slats of the blinds carry the viewers’ eyes…
August 3, 2020
Postcards of an Education
Jean-Luc Goddard’s 1963 agitprop film, Les Carabiniers, was a New Wave shaggy dog story. For most of the somewhat tedious film the two loutish protagonist commit a series of…
July 6, 2020
Mitch Daniels, Purdue University, and the COVID-19 Calculus
This blog was initially inspired primarily by my sense that students and their learning had relatively little value in the decisions made in higher education. To capture this concern,…
June 1, 2020
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Pedagogical Triage
In higher education, as in so many other areas of our lives, the COVID-19 virus has turned the world upside down. At least in the short term the impossible has…
April 5, 2020
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Revolt of the College Teachers
[For some time two concerns have hovered in the back of my consciousness: the total inability of contemporary culture to generate visions of a positive future and the absence of…
January 20, 2020
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Amoebas, Sexual Reproduction, and a History Department
I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings. Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me.…
December 2, 2019
Tear Down This Wall! – Decoding K-16
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
November 12, 2019
Decoding the Disciplines / Teaching and Learning in History / Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education
Dumb Questions?
Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…
October 16, 2019
Teaching and Social Responsibility in Higher Education / The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Shame Factories of Academia
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
September 9, 2019